The relations between Greek colonies and their mother cities attract
attention not only because of the intrinsic interest of colonizing
activity but because of the special nature of Greek colonies. The
Greek colony and its mother city had a closer tie of relationship than
existed between Greek states in general, yet as a rule the colony
formed a separate city state, thus providing scope for a great variety
of forms of association. Dr. Graham investigates these during the
period of the 8th to the 4th century B.C.

The first part of the book is devoted to a description of Greek ideas
and practices regarding the actual founding of a colony, about which
there appear to have been general fixed principles. He then goes on to
consider the subsequent relations between the colony and its mother
city. Using evidence drawn from a number of cities, including Thasos,
Miletus, Corinth and Athens, the author discusses the general basis on
which links were formed between city and colony, involving such
questions as mutual citizenship and religious connections. He also
considers the variations found in the relationships caused by such
factors as distance and the power and ambitions of the mother city.

As a synthesis which presents and discusses material widely spread in
place and time, much of it previously accessible only to specialists,
this book should become both the standard general treatment of the
subject and the basis for future studies of this aspect of Greek
colonization. In the second edition, the author has added notes and
has updated the bibliography. ISBN 0-89005-520-3. xxxvi + 260pp
Pb. $20.00

"Few scholars have so thoroughly investigated the development of
Ionia, especially its economic base, from the migrations in the early
Dark Age to the period of the Persian Wars. Yet Professor Roebuck
has always recognized that a society is far more than its economic
system and that Ionia must be placed in the larger context of Greece
as a whole. Hence his work has looked beyond Ionia and economics
to the entire world of early Greece and has illuminated particularly the
emergence of the distinctive product of the Dark and Archaic ages,
the polis.

All this work ultimately focuses upon the emergence of the Greek
polis, one of the most debated questions in the scholarship of ancient
history. The debate is due not so much to the quarrelsome natures of
the scholars concerned with the problem as to the composition of the
polis. Although the city-state is an entity, it can be studied as an
economic, political, religious, military, and social struc-ture. In
concentrating on one of those aspects, Carl Roebuck has done more
than provide answers to specific questions of fact: he has revealed the
interconnection between all the dimensions of the emerging state."
From the Preface by Carol G. Thomas. ISBN 0-89005-261-1. 172pp
Pb. $25.00

"The study of the economic development of Ionia before the Persian
Wars has grown out of several articles on Greek trade. In them I
found myself grappling with two problems of early Greek history
which have been the subject of recent controversy, how to assess the
economic factor and how to define the role of Ionia. It seemed that
some clarification might be made by studying their interrelation.
Although Ionia was a colonial area of post-Mycenaean Greece, it
rapidly became the scene of significant achievement, the epic poetry
of Homer and the literature, art and speculation of the sixth century.
By that time this cultural accomplishment rested on a substantial
economic basis and Ionian luxury was becoming a term of reproach. I
have tried to reconstruct the growth and character of this prosperity,
to describe how such difficulties as the lack of metals and of land and
food to care for an increasing population were met. The Ionians found
a solution to them in an extensive network of trade and colonization
from Spain to the Black Sea. In so doing they and perhaps Corinth
also enabled Classical Greece to tap the resources of the
Mediterranean as a whole and to expand the organization of its
limited agrarian economy. Since we are just beginning to acquire
more precise archaeological information of western Asia Minor and of
many of the Greek colonial regions, some of the conclusions drawn
will necessarily be modified. Specialist knowledge could amplify or
correct some of them at the present time, but perhaps a synthesis is
the best means of obtaining a new perspective. If it stimulates further
work, at least one purpose will have been achieved." From the Preface
by Carol G. Thomas. ISBN 0-89005-528-9. 154pp Pb. $25.00

The story of Imperial Rome's struggle to become economic master of
its own rapidly growing overseas empire. A unique account of how an
ancient state attempted to gain control of its foreign trade and balance
of payments. In today's global economy this is a fascinating account of
an age-old problem. A valuable and authoritative work on the
commercial activity of the Roman Empire. ISBN 0-89005-063-5.
320pp Pb. $25.00

The most remarkable story of ancient China's commercial and
diplomatic relations with the Roman world. Based on numerous
Chinese documents uncovered by the author during several years of
research in China during the late 19th century. ISBN 0-89005-093-7.
352 pp Pb. $25.00

This is a reprint of the 1909 edition of the complete work, authorized
and translated into English under Mommsen's supervision. No other
work offers such a careful analysis of the historical, economic,
cultural and religious aspects of the Roman provinces. A well
organized presentation which skillfully blends a multitude of diverse
historical evidence into a logical panorama of the Roman provinces
and their place in ancient history. (Vol. I: ISBN 0-89005-051-1.
$27.50); (Vol. II: ISBN 0-89005-052-X. $27.50). ISBN
0-89005-491-6, the set. 2 vols. 756pp Hb. $55.00

An account of how the ancient people of the Baltic
region emerged from their isolation via their participation in the amber trade
of the ancient world. Spekke emphasizes the active role of the ancient Balts
in developing and managing this important trade. ISBN 0-89005-178-X. 120pp +
14pll Pb. $20.00